Julius Caesar

Author : William Shakespeare
time : Elizabethan period
Published : Francis Meres
year : 1598

the summary:

The story begins when Julius Caesar roles Roman. He is growing too powerful. But he is an arrogant king. Cassius, who fears Caesar ever growing power, begins to recruit Brutus.They have planed to kill Caesar. A fortune teller tells Caesar beware. But Caesar is too arrogant person. Brutus and Cassius plan is success, Caesar dies. Brutus and Cassius explain to the roman citizen why they kill Caesar and gaining their support. Using the immortal words, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;" Mark Antony (Caesar’s Right hand man) turns the citizens of Rome against Brutus and Cassius by making the citizens feel remorse for Caesar's cruel death and by bribing then with the news that Caesar's will gifts each citizen money from his will. Mark Antony uses this fact to suggest Caesar was a great man who should not have been murdered.The crowd, now an angry, crazed mob, go after the conspirators including Brutus and Cassius who flee in fear. This conflict grows up become a big war between the triumvirs (mark Antony and Octavius) and Conspiracy (Brutus and cassius). Cassius gets a lie’s report, and lose Cassius’s force ground from Mark Antony’s force. Fells guilty, Cassius kills himself. Brutus is captured, but he inspires his men to keep fighting. Brutus feels tired, weary, but still alive. Finnaly Brutus kills himself by his sword. Octavius, Mark Antony, Messala and Lucilius now arrive. Strato explains how Brutus died. Mark Antony pays tribute to Brutus' noble spirit by famously saying, "This was the noblest Roman of them all..." Octavius tells his soldiers to stand down, the battle now over.